Rydia.net is a niche webhosting service that operated from 1999 through
2015.

As of this writing, we are no longer accepting new accounts.

Current users: we are not shutting down, going offline, or losing your data.
We will be slowly ramping down service. We will be in touch about transferring
ownership of your domain if it is under our account. We will also be in touch
about transferring you to another service. Remaining users are welcome to stay
with us for longer under some circumstances.

We will no longer be accepting payments for service as of March 1st, 2016. If
you need more time, please contact us. You can stay for free until your
situation is worked out.

It's been fun, and "officially" closing this is incredibly hard. While the
site has looked like a ghost town for years, I've been maintaining the service
and answering support questions. Over the last five years the need for our
kind of webhosting has declined, with cloud and hosted pagemaking services
making it free or very cheap to host a custom portfolio online. We weren't
large enough early enough to be a sustainable business and Rydia has remained
a side project for 16 years.

We started on a single small recycled desktop computer in a closet at an ISP,
the machine slower than the original iPhone. Every year or two we moved
datacenters, onto better and newer (and usually still donated aside from the
harddrives) hardware. We always pushed to get the best deal so everyone could
use all the bandwidth they needed for a price that wouldn't bankrupt me. I
spent extra efforts whenever someone got their 15 minutes of fame, with
traffic crushing the system. We never shut someone off or charged them above
their monthly fee for the privilege of having a good traffic day.

I want to give my most sincere thanks to everyone who has hosted with us over
the years. It's been amazing watching people grow into careers, mature their
art, or even decide to find something new. Rydia was instrumental as a
learning tool for myself early in my career. I learned a lot about systems
administration, about maintaing uptime, backups, customer support, etc. While
there are some regrets about not investing enough time into it early on, I've
gotten a lot out of it and am honored to have met all of you.